After all, the witnesses that nearly gave her a date with a needle were only after their “15 minutes of fame.”

Hupp pleaded guilty to the 2016 murder of Louis Gumpenberger, 33.

In the face of the death penalty, Hupp decided to opt for life in a Missouri slammer instead of oblivion.

Oh, and cops also like Hupp for the stabbing death of her terminally-ill best friend Betsy Faria. Almost forgot: They like her for her mother’s 2013 death. A fall.

According to our heroine, she only copped to the murder charge to save her family from an “ugly trial.”

And just who the hell is the charming Pam Hupp?

According to cops, Hupp murdered Gumpenberger as part of a bizarre ruse to frame Betsy Faria’s hubby Russell in the slaying of his wife.

He was charged and eventually acquitted in the grisly murder. Hupp wanted to stitch up Russell Faria for a revenge murder.

Hupp, 60, portrayed herself as the host of a crime show to Gumpenberger.

She got the befuddled man into her house and encouraged him to reenact a 911 call.

Hupp then parked two bullets into the disabled man.

Self-defence said our Pam. Unprovoked attack.

But cops in Missouri were soon wise to the homicidal harpy.

Betsy Faria and her husband Russell. A victim and a patsy.

It was a stupid scheme.

After she was convicted in poor Gumpenberger’s murder — others testified that she tried to lure them in as well — detectives started looking at the Betsy Faria homicide again.

Russell Faria always told investigators it was Hupp. At stake? A $150,000 insurance policy that Hupp would get in the event of her pal’s death.

But Pam Hupp doesn’t give a rat’s ass about Gumpenberger or her one-time best friend.

In a series of phone calls to her husband, obtained by Fox News, it was all about poor Pam.

Witnesses, the judge, the district attorney all come in for a heaping helping of scorn.

“You’ve got to remember the judge and the prosecutor are on the same team,” she told her (we assume) long-suffering husband.

And the many witnesses against her? Attention seekers.

“Got people coming out of the woodwork saying, ‘Oh, we saw her do this and she tried to pick me up’ and all that,” she told her husband.

“I don’t even know who these people were or the places that they are talking about. Everybody is just jumping on the bandwagon for their fifteen minutes of fame and it’s like, who are these people?”

Our Pam.

Poor Pam. American killer.

No, it wasn’t the facts.

Even Pam’s dopey hubby wondered why his wife took a life sentence if she was innocent.

She said it was “just the best offer they offered.”

And Pam did not like that she was being labelled a serial killer.

“It’s not the facts,” she told her husband.

“That’s not what people are convicted on. It’s what 12 people think you did, you know what I’m saying? ‘If we didn’t get her for this one, we’ll get her for the other two,’ and it’s like… but they have nothing to do with each other and I didn’t do anything, nor was I ever, you know implicated in any of that yet.

“No, I’m not up for three of them, are you kidding me?”

Oh contraire say cops and prosecutors.

“I don’t think it’s any secret that the behavior exhibited by Hupp is disturbing,” prosecutor Mike Wood told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Evidence, please.

“From a circumstantial standpoint, a lot of this is pointing at Hupp. No one can deny that.”

Pam Hupp, serial killer, may get the needle after all.

Scott Judge. Missing 16 years. OPP

MISSING

NAME: SCOTT JUDGE

411: The province is offering a $50,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the disappearance of Scott Judge. Cops say that Judge, 38, was last seen in the bush area of Elbow Lake, near Kingston. Hunters found many of the missing man’s belongings in the area but there was no sign of Judge.

CONTACT

Any person having information regarding the person(s) responsible for the disappearance of Scott Judge should communicate with the OPP’s director of the criminal Investigation branch at 1-888-310-1122 or (705) 329-6111, their nearest police authority, or Crime Stoppers.

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